Pretty cool to see another review and retrospective on Windows Me. I was just reading a contemporary review on Paul Thurrott's blog the other day [0]. I didn't use Me when it was new but I've played with it a bit as I grow my retro PC hobby. I think it holds an interesting place in Windows history, being such a short lived release that was built with the intention of being quickly superseded.
A "fun" Windows Me fact: it's intended to be pronounced "Me" (as in "I") and not as the initialism, "Emm Eee". This was a way to convey its home user-centric nature.
This site really shows why Me was a failure: getting in the user's way. One cannot copy something from the site.
Microsoft was against digital media. You wanted mp3 ? Winamp. Wanted to play movies ? Xvid player.
They crippled Me so that people could not play their favourite DOS games anymore. The system was very unstable. It will crash by itself only with the desktop running. All iin all it was a failure.
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[ 4.0 ms ] story [ 11.8 ms ] threadA "fun" Windows Me fact: it's intended to be pronounced "Me" (as in "I") and not as the initialism, "Emm Eee". This was a way to convey its home user-centric nature.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20061231183738/http://www.winsup...
This site really shows why Me was a failure: getting in the user's way. One cannot copy something from the site.
Microsoft was against digital media. You wanted mp3 ? Winamp. Wanted to play movies ? Xvid player.
They crippled Me so that people could not play their favourite DOS games anymore. The system was very unstable. It will crash by itself only with the desktop running. All iin all it was a failure.